Léon Printemps

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Léon Printemps (born May 26, 1871 in Paris , † July 2, 1945 there ) was a French painter. He frequented the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris with painters such as Georges Rouault , Henri Matisse and Henri Evenepoel . He was distinguished by his outstanding talent as a portrait and landscape painter.

Life

Léon Printemps was born in Paris on May 26, 1871, into a family from the Lille area . Painting exerted a strong attraction on him from a young age. His uncle, the sculptor Jules Printemps, a student of François Jouffroy at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, supported him in his vocation and prepared him for the entrance exam at this school, where he was accepted in 1892. He took courses with Gustave Moreau , with whom he stayed in contact until his death in 1898. At the school he also met Georges Rouault , Matisse , Henri Evenepoel (1872–1899), Albert Marquet , Edgar Maxence (1871–1954) and Charles Milcendeau . During this time he devoted himself primarily to the symbolist trend and found expression both in a poetic and mythological vision and in the sensuality of female nudes .

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Sully Prudhomme - 1902 - Pastel - 36 × 45 cm

Portrait painter

As a recognized portrait painter, he received commissions from personalities such as Sully Prudhomme , the first Nobel Prize winner for literature, the Princely Couple von Waldeck, Mr. and Mrs. Commettant, and Prince Jussupow , one of the murderers of Rasputin .

Léon Printemps married in 1903, and his family environment was often the subject of his paintings, which are characterized by intense intimacy; he painted in particular his daughter Lucile, whose death at the age of 6 shook him badly, and his son René.

Landscape painter

Léon Printemps painted landscapes all his life. His desire to get to know the Flemish masters led him to Belgium and the Netherlands at the end of the 19th century , from where he brought numerous studies with him. He later had a fondness for the beaches of Normandy, which were then fashionable after the First World War for Brittany and especially for the islands of the Vendée, the Île de Noirmoutier and the Île d'Yeu , where he painted coastal landscapes and portraits of Painted by fishermen and old peasant women.

Flemish and Dutch influence

The attraction of the masters, which crystallized during his visits to the Louvre , led him to repeated trips to Belgium and the Netherlands to immerse himself in the art of the great Flemish and Dutch masters. Several paintings from his first stays in Belgium were shown in the exhibition of French artists Salon des artistes français (1898 and 1905), in the exhibition “Salon artistique des PTT” (1905) and in regional exhibitions in Lille (1898) and Nantes (1906) .

In 1894, on a first trip to Belgium, he visited the cities of Bruges , Ghent , Mechelen and Antwerp , probably accompanied by other students of Gustave Moreau . A second trip, two years later, took him to the Meuse valley , where he painted the Bayard rock , an extraordinary rock needle, in Dinant . In 1897 he stayed in the Netherlands and visited the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam . In 1898 he visited Bruges and Mechelen again. In 1929 and 1933, he brought both cities closer to his son René, who was also a painter at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Léon Printemps died on July 9, 1945 in his studio on Rue Furstenberg in Paris, where the museum of the painter Eugène Delacroix is located.

Participation in trade fairs and exhibitions - prizes and awards

  • Salon des artistes français between 1893 and 1939. Honorable mention in 1900.
  • Salon d'hiver, from 1907 to 1934.
  • Salon des artistes de Paris.
  • Exposition des Amis des arts de la Somme, in Amiens. Silver medal in 1896.
  • Salon de l'Union artistique du Nord, in Lille. Silver medal in 1896.
  • Salon de la Rose-Croix, 1897.
  • Salon artistique des PTT.
  • Exposition du Travail. Silver medal in 1899.
  • Salon de la Société des Amis des arts de Nantes, 1902 to 1908.
  • Salon du Cercle des Gobelins, 1901 to 1903, 1913.
  • International exhibition in the Palais des beaux-arts in Monte Carlo, 1903.
  • International Exhibition in Paris Neuilly, gold medal in 1900.
  • International Exhibition in Seattle, Washington, gold medal in 1909.
  • Exhibition of Gustave Moreau's pupils, Galerie Hessèle, 1910.
  • Prix ​​du souvenir - War 1914-1918, 1924.
  • Frattesi Prize of the City of Paris, 1942.

Paintings in public collections

  • Châlons-en-Champagne (Marne): Municipal Museum - Parfum du soir - 1904. Donated by Baron Alphonse de Rothschild .
  • Châtenay-Malabry (Hauts de Seine):
  • Cholet (Maine-et-Loire): Musée d'art et d'histoire - L'Automne - 1900.
  • Clairoix (Oise): Association Art, Histoire et Patrimoine de Clairoix: Église de Clairoix - Vallée de l'Aronde - 1910.
  • Clermont (Oise): Town Hall - Bretonne d'Audierne - 1910.
  • Compiègne (Oise): Antoine Vivenel Museum - Au bois du rêve - 1899. Donated by Baron Alphonse de Rothschild.
  • Laffaux (Aisne): Town Hall - Verdun - 1920.
  • Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne (Vendée): Historial de la Vendée - 30 paintings (donated in 2013).
  • Lullin (Savoie): Town Hall - Église - 1917.
  • Noirmoutier (Vendée):
    • La Guérinière: Musée des traditions de l'île - Paysage.
    • L'Épine: Town Hall - Le marché de L'Épine - 1922.
    • Noirmoutier-en-l'Île: Musée du Château - Affiche des Chemins de Fer de l'Etat - Excursions aux îles de l'Océan - 1928.
    • Association des Amis de Noirmoutier - 25 paintings (donated in 2013).
  • Paris: Fonds municipal d'art contemporain de la ville de Paris: Retour de pêche (île d'Yeu) - 1925.
  • Quimper (Finistère): Musée départemental Breton - 9 paintings (donated in 2015).
  • Riom (Puy-de-Dôme): Musée F. Mandet - Le lierre enlaçant la fleur - 1903.
  • Vauhallan (Essonne): Tourist Office - L'église de Vauhallan - 1897.
  • Versailles (Yvelines): Musée Lambinet - La gare des matelots - 1918.

Most recent retrospective exhibitions since 2000

  • Paris, 7th arrondissement town hall, March 2000.
  • Île de Noirmoutier, Musée des traditions de l'Île de Noirmoutier: La Guérinière, April - June 2000; L'Épine, July – August 2005.
  • Châtenay-Malabry, exhibition on the occasion of the centenary of Sully Prudhomme's death, May 2007.
  • Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne, contribution to the exhibition "Des toiles et des voiles - L'île d'Yeu sous le regard des peintres",
    Historial de la Vendée, 29 June - 23 September 2007.
  • Vauhallan, contribution to the exhibition on the First World War from 1914–1918, November 2008. Photographs of around ten works.
  • Île d'Yeu, contribution to the exhibition on the artists of the port of la Meule, August 2009

literature

  • Vincent Cristofoli, "Léon Printemps" in: Lettre aux Amis. Bulletin des Amis de l'île d'Yeu de Noirmoutier, 2000, No. 117, pp. 3-7.
  • Jean-François Henry, Marc-Adolphe Guégan, Poète de l'île d'Yeu , Mairie de l'île d'Yeu, 2009, 116 pp.
  • Jacques Noireau: Léon Printemps - Catalog raisonné. 2013 (printed in Belgium) ISBN 978-90-90-27677-9 .
  • Jacques Noireau: Léon Printemps. 2004, ISBN 2-9521233-0-6 .
  • Caroline Mignot: Les élèves de Gustave Moreau au dernier Salon de la Rose-Croix (1897). University of Rennes II, September 2000. Master's thesis in art history.
  • Claire Printemps, Jacques Noireau: René Printemps. 2004, ISBN 2-9523305-0-6 .
  • Patrick de Villepin: Le Bois de la Chaise - Le "petit Éden" de l'île de Noirmoutier. Vendée Patrimoine, 2009, Volume II.
  • François Wiehn, Gérard Aubisse: Dictionnaire des peintres de Vendée. La Crèche, Geste Éditions, 2010, ISBN 978-2-84561-706-3 .
  • SN (collaborative work), L'île d'Yeu. Des peintres et des marins. 1850 à 1950 , Paris, Éditions d'art Somogy, 2007, 650 illustrations.
  • SN, “Sully Prudhomme par Léon Printemps, histoire d'un portrait” Article in the Châtenay-Malabry parish journal, published in May 2007 on the occasion of the family donation of the portrait of Sully Prudhomme.

See also

Portal: Art and Culture  - Art History
Portal: Art and Culture  - Painting
Portal: Art and Culture  - France

Web links

Commons : Léon Printemps  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salon des artistes français (French WP)
  2. ^ Salon de la Rose-Croix (French WP)
  3. ↑ cf. Caroline Mignot, op.cit. p. 119-120.
  4. ↑ This painting was the occasion for two exhibitions: (a) Musée d'art et d'histoire de Narbonne: July-September 1996; (b) Musée des beaux-arts de Nice: October 18, 1996 - January 19, 1997. It is mentioned on page 52 of a catalog of the Musée des beaux-arts de Nice, under the title: Vigne, Vins, Vignerons dans la peinture française , Les Presses de l'Imprimerie Escourbiac, Graulhet (Tarn), 1996.
  5. ↑ Donation from Jacques Noireau, grandson of the painter, to the municipality of Laffaux and ceremonial unveiling during a conference on the First World War taking place in the town hall (CRID14-18) .
  6. ↑ a b c Information provided by family.
  7. ↑ a b Léon Printemps is mentioned in a passage about the five «artists of la Meule» (a port) that appeared in a book by Jean-François Henry about the poet Marc-Adolphe Guégan.
  8. ↑ a b c Catalogs available from the author.
personal data
SURNAME Printemps, Léon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1945
Place of death Paris , France